Making Good Communities Better [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanders, Irwin Taylor, 1909-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community organization.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, [Kentucky] : University Press of Kentucky, 1953.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Irwin T. Sanders has translated his own experience as a social scientist into a practical, easy-to-read guide to community improvement. An impressive array of additional experts has teamed up with him to supply selected guideposts on twenty-one special problems in community organization.This popular handbook has been called by many civic workers the most practical, down-to-earth tool they have known for community engineering. Issued in two editions with a total of seven printings, it is now republished in a convenient, paper-bound form containing the complete text of the 1953 revision.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; PREFACE; CONTENTS; PART I: WHAT MAKES A GOOD COMMUNITY: FOUR TRAITS; PART II: HOW COMMUNITIES SHOW DIFFERENCES: FIVE WAYS; PART Ill: HOW TO PROMOTE A CIVIC PROGRAM: FIVE STAGES; PART IV: HOW TO MAKE OUR GROUP EFFECTIVE: SEVEN AREAS; PART V: OUR PHILOSOPHY OF CIVIC SERVICE: FIVE QUESTIONS; PART VI: PROCEDURE FOR CIVIC LEADERS: 20 GUIDEPOSTS; INDEX; C; E; F; I; L; M; O; P; R; S; V

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6424-9

OCLC:

573788274